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In this special retrofit issue we launch our new RetroFirst campaign championing reuse in the built environment. We also announce the winners of the AJ Retrofit Awards 2019 covering 18 different categories; as well as building studies of two retrofit projects: Orms’ conversion of council offices into a hotel in Camden, north London; and Flower Michelin Architects’ Shingle House renovation and extension of a seaside ...

Proustian rush: Proctor & Matthews’ Staffordshire retirement home

6 July, 2017 By Jon Astbury

Chapter House in Lichfield, for the retirement home specialist PegasusLife, recalls the cloisters of the friary that once stood on the plot – and Proust’s madeleine, writes Jon Astbury. Photography by Tim Crocker

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